Ancient Ration Bowl? The Enigmatic BRB
Автор: Artifactually Speaking
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Today I'm back in the Near East Study Room at the Penn Museum looking at Mesopotamian artifacts. The focus of this episode is a rather crude looking bowl that we call the Beveled Rim Bowl, or BRB for short.
It was very popular in the Late Uruk period more than 5,000 years ago, but we don't really know what it was used for. An Uruk period site can have tens of thousands of these bowls, so many that excavators have been known to suggest they are more common than the dirt itself!
But why? It's not a simple soup bowl, since it isn't good at holding liquids. Some say it's for baking, or for cheese-making, or even salt drying. I like the idea that it might be a ration bowl, filled with grain for a day's work, or half a day, or something like that. So in this video I measure this one while talking about the importance of measurement and the difficulty of knowing the ancient standards.
Join me, and, be sure to visit the Penn Museum whenever you can. We've got one of these bowls on display and a replica of one you can touch.
https://www.penn.museum/visit/plan-yo...
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